Monterey was a welcome site for the Homestead Mustangs last week — no, not the coastal city, the high school baseball team.

The Mustangs knocked off the Toreadors 14-12 last weekend in the first round of the Cupertino Lions Tournament, and Homestead coach Chuck Camuso and his crew were happy to get the win.

The Mustangs had played well during the week, but were battling first-place Los Gatos in a couple of games in the De Anza Division of the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League.

Homestead lost a 2-0 heartbreaker to the unbeaten Cats to open the week, then lost 7-2 to Gatos on Friday, despite leading 2-1 early in the game.

The two losses evened Homestead’s league record at 4-4 while Gatos improved to 8-0.

The Mustangs managed to even their season record at 8-8 over the weekend with the rousing 14-12 win over Monterey.

Trevor Greyson had a huge day for Homestead with four hits, including a grand slam, to drive in six runs.

Allan Flores was the winning pitcher for the Mustangs, pushing his record to 2-1.

Things had gone as well for the Mustangs earlier in the week against Los Gatos. They could manage just three hits — singles by Greyson, Jess Lehrman and Scott Torres — in the 2-0 loss on Wednesday, then fell 7-2 on Friday.

Going in, it was a series that had Los Gatos coach Brad Sanfilippo concerned.

“Homestead has beaten some good teams this year,” said Sanfilippo of Camuso’s club. “They’ve got to be the third best team in our league.” Going into Friday’s ballgame, Sanfilippo knew that his Wildcats would have their hands full against Greyson, a hard-throwing right-hander.

“We knew that Greyson was their best guy,” said the Gatos coach of the Homestead ace. “We knew we were going to see a good pitcher today.” Greyson was touched for an unearned run in the first, but he and his teammates were able to answer with two in the home half of the inning.

Flores started things with a one-out single to left and Bryan Yang drilled one that bounced over the fence in left-center, Flores stopping at third on the ground-rule double.

Greyson plated a run with a ground out to second and Yang went to third. Jerome Barclay looped a single into right to plate Yang, then raced all the way to third on a hard single to center by Torres. With runners at the corners, a ground out ended the threat, but the Mustangs had taken the lead, 2-1.

Los Gatos tied it in the second, took the lead in the third, then made it 5-2 in the fourth on a two-out, two-run homer.

The Mustangs threatened again in the bottom of the fourth. Torres singled with one out and, an out later, Marcus Boucher walked. The two moved up on a wild pitch before Devon Ramsour walked to load the bases.

Lead-off man Alex Medin had a great at-bat, fouling off three pitches on a 3-2 count, but he ended up grounding out the short to end the inning.

Flores opened the fifth with his second single of the day and Los Gatos called on reliever Jason Shepardson. The junior right-hander had Homestead’s number, though, stringing together nine strikeouts to end the game.

El Camino Division

Saratoga, a two-time winner over Gunn last week, leads the El Camino Division standings with a 6-1 record.

Fremont, meanwhile, slipped to 1-4 in division play and 3-6 overall following a 18-11 loss to Santa Clara in real slugfest. Each team belted 13 hits in the Thursday game in Santa Clara.

Robbie Chin had four hits and Damon Ball homered, but it wasn’t enough for the Firebirds.

Fremont will now face Lynbrook in two league games this week. The clubs were to meet on Tuesday and will play at Fremont on April 9, 3:30 p.m.

Split for Fremont

The Fremont girls split in a couple of big softball games last week, beating Santa Clara 12-2 in five innings but losing 5-1 to Los Gatos in the battle for first place in the De Anza Division.

Los Gatos, Fremont and Wilcox went into games Thursday in a three-way tie for first place with matching 4-1 records. Gatos broke part of the tie with the win over the Firebirds, and Wilcox topped Milpitas 8-1.

Fremont had opened the week with a solid win over the Bruins. Clean-up hitter Rachael Mahoney had three hits to lead the Lady Birds at the plate and junior pitcher Taylor DeSilva tossed a 2-hitter for the win.

Fremont will try to get back on the winning track in league play when it hosts Milpitas on April 9, 4 p.m.

Homestead is coming off of a 4-1 win over Milpitas last Tuesday. Janelle Inenaga, Molly Gosnell, Kelly Utley and Kelly Hamilton had two hits each in the win for the Mustangs and Hannah Strotman doubled.

Strotman also threw a 4-hitter for the win, pushing her record to 2-2.

The Mustangs, 2-3 in division play, edged Capuchino 2-1 in a non-league game last week behind a 6-hitter by Myranda Ramirez. Gosnell singled, doubled and tripled for Homestead and Hamilton ripped a double. Ramirez, Strotman and Utley each singled.

Homestead opened the Mission City Tournament last week, beating Lynbrook 4-0 on a 3-hit shutout by Strotman, but losing 11-2 to San Benito and 8-1 to Valley Christian.

Gosnell tripled and singled twice in the win over the Vikings.

Colleen Aubrey homered and singled, but the Mustangs lost to San Benito.